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Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/

Google's vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini | TechCrunch
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps.

https://www.zeit.de/geld/2025-10/markenprodukt-eigenmarke-produktion-preis-vergleich-tool
Halb ahnte man, halb dachte man es sich: welche billigen Eigenmarken sind eigentlich von teuren Markenherstellern?:

Markenprodukt oder Eigenmarke: Ein Produkt, zwei Preise: Finden Sie Ihre Lieblingsmarken – in günstig
Ist das die Prinzenrolle, nur in anderer Verpackung? Absolut! Unser interaktives Tool zeigt, welche billigen Alternativen fast identisch sind mit teurer Markenware.

Meta launches a tool called content protection to let creators detect when their reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram and take action (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/face

Facebook rolls out new tools for creators to track accounts stealing their content
Meta is rolling out a new tool that allows Facebook creators to more easily track when their videos have been reposted by others.

🥄 'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-fixturing-friction-technique-barriers.html

'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join similar and dissimilar materials (particularly metals and alloys) without rivets, fasteners, or adhesive. This advanced manufacturing technique—called friction stir welding—requires only a fraction of the energy required by conventional techniques, but it isn't used on many assembly lines today.

years wasted arguing about so-called 'free speech' when in reality that concept was just a tool brought up by some people trying to get away with having said something racist

Intel-Gerüchte: Achtkern-CPU für Budget-PCs und Core Ultra X für Notebooks
Das Auslese-Tool CPU-Z gibt einen Ausblick auf neue Intel-Prozessoren. Für Budget-PCs könnte der Core Ultra 3 205 spannend werden.

It’s obvious that this tool was made by people who care about data and care about humans. It’s not even that it’s •perfect•; it’s just that it’s •thoughtful•.
That kind of human-to-human feeling of “we did our best because we care about the strangers who use this tool” just seems almost like an act of radical defiance in this Era of Enshittification. I appreciate it so much.

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

A new epistemic tool has arrived in the @… lab!

Whistles have become a popular raid alert tool in cities across the country
– New Yorkers wear them around their necks to warn neighbors,
the people of New Orleans blast them outside ICE facilities
and Charlotte residents used them to ward off Customs and Border Protection officials.
While strongly associated with Chicago, the tactic is actually one that city organizers learned in part from groups in Los Angeles.
Its spread is illustrative of the many ways cit…

DfT have released a public version of their tool that shows the "connectivity" of any location in England and Wales, but because it doesn't use URLs meaningfully, the reports can't be bookmarked or shared.
(Which is the sort of thing I would hope comes up in a service assessment.)
https://connectivity-t…

Ein Unternehmen macht ihr "offenes" und "freies" "Open Source"-Tool "für Selbsthoster" mehr oder weniger über Nacht extrem teuer. Ich rante rum, weil sie Selbsthosting für Privatpersonen effektiv unmöglich machen, dann aber gönnerhaft die Variante in ihrer Cloud kostenlos anbieten.
Man bezahlt also mal wieder mit seinen Daten.
Unternehmen: "Wo haben wir je behauptet, dass unsere Cloudlösung für Individuen und kleine Gruppen wäre?? D…

Designing Tools with Control Confidence
Ajith Anil Meera, Abian Torres, Pablo Lanillos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12630 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12630

Designing Tools with Control Confidence
Prehistoric humans invented stone tools for specialized tasks by not just maximizing the tool's immediate goal-completion accuracy, but also increasing their confidence in the tool for later use under similar settings. This factor contributed to the increased robustness of the tool, i.e., the least performance deviations under environmental uncertainties. However, the current autonomous tool design frameworks solely rely on performance optimization, without considering the agent's confidence in…

The joy of commercial big data. Thomson Reuters helps ICE to see in realtime which drivers are Democrats.
https://www.404media.co/this-app-lets-ice-track-vehicles-and-owners-across-the-country/

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

"In 19 transactions starting last October, Ms. Handeland deposited $98,300 into the machines. All of it vanished — as did Mike, who turned out to be a fiction."
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technol

How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
The kiosks, which resemble conventional A.T.M.s and convert cash into virtual currencies, are increasingly under scrutiny as a tool for scammers.

Kleines Tool für Leute, die mit #LIDO-Daten arbeiten: LIDORefineWeb. Man lädt eine od. mehrere LIDO-XML(s) hoch, bekommt dann eine CSV, die man z.B. in #OpenRefine mit Normdaten anreichern kann, lädt diese dann wieder hoch und die Normdaten werden dann in die Original-LIDO geschrieben:

Was ist eigentlich der populärste #Hashtag für ein Thema? Leicht herauszufinden mit einem schönen Tool von @… https://rstoc…

Here the Config Management tool hooked onto the network, doing distributed app management, rolling restarts/config changes, remediation, KV based hierarchical input data - all autonomously and without orchestration as such.
https://youtu.be/8ezkeWg7PG0
Come to @…

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/15/google-dark-web-report-shutting-down/<…

Google is shutting down its ‘Dark web report’ tool after just over a year
One of the lesser-known features that Google offers is a “Dark Web Report” monitoring tool, but it’s about to shut...

Love the ambiguous acronyms *within a domain*:
- FIT may mean Firmware Interface Table or Flash Image Tool
- FPT may mean Flash Partition Table or Flash Programming Tool
Edit: All of those are terms from the wonderful world of Intel firmware.

#ffmpeg in your browser: #codecs

I understand that there are people that use The Bible to guide them and get spiritual and mental support. But I also see the people that shout loud about relying on The Bible, and those most often use it as a weapon, as a tool to exercise power on others, and to do so they just ignore most of the teachings of Jesus.¹
So we have to distinguish if someone wants to use The Bible to relieve themselves or suppress others. Two opposite ways.
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¹aka “all the woke stuff”

#Steady
Vibe Coding mit KI-Programmierhilfen in Visual Studio Code ausprobiert.
Ich habe zwei KI-Assistenzen für die direkte Integration in VSCode getestet, ob sie meine Erwartungen erfüllen. Welche Lösung wirklich hilft, die Arbeit effizienter zu gestalten, zeigt sich erst beim Praxistest. Der Einsatz lohnt sich, doch nicht jedes Tool spielte so mit, wie ich es mir gewünscht hatte.

Visual Studio Code mit KI erweitern: Codex vs. GitHub Copilot
Erfahre, wie du Visual Studio Code mit GitHub Copilot und KI-Agenten effizient einrichtest und optimal nutzt – auch kostenlos!

Good video by the @… folks over on TikTok:
So now Google (with the AI detection tool) is now selling the antidote for the poison they’re pushing down everyone’s throats.🙄

Interesting about how #Russia uses criminal networks to sabotage #Europe. https://icct.nl/publ…

This came in my feed, and I can't disagree. I have worked with #StackOverflow developers in the past, and I think the result will be the same, or even worse.
https://www.<…

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Xingang Guo, Utkarsh Tyagi, Advait Gosai, Paula Vergara, Ernesto Gabriel Hern\'andez Montoya, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Bin Hu, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12712

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly applied in real-world scenarios where user-provided images are often imperfect, requiring active image manipulations such as cropping, editing, or enhancement to uncover salient visual cues. Beyond static visual perception, MLLMs must also think with images: dynamically transforming visual content and integrating it with other tools to solve complex tasks. However, this shift from treating vision as passive context to a manipulable cogni…

heise | Fotos-App am Mac: So sortieren Sie Ihre Sammlung komfortabler
Unser Tool "Stapelbenennung für Fotos" erweitert die Fähigkeiten der macOS-Fotos-App: Es fügt Metadaten und fortlaufende Nummern in Titel und Bildtitel ein.

Pavel Durov should have invested in @… instead of Telegram if he really believed in the free exchange of information. ;) https://bookofadamz.com/if-pavel-du…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

»Windows 11—Neues Tool verspricht komplett KI-freies Betriebssystem:
#Microsoft integriert zunehmend künstliche Intelligenz in #Windows 11, doch nicht jeder Nutzer möchte #Copilot,

Windows 11: Neues Tool verspricht komplett KI-freies Betriebssystem
Microsoft integriert zunehmend künstliche Intelligenz in Windows 11, doch nicht jeder Nutzer möchte Copilot, Recall und Co. verwenden. Ein neues Tool verspricht Abhilfe und entfernt sämtliche KI-Komponenten restlos aus dem Betriebssystem.

Lowering Barriers to CAD Adoption: A Comparative Study of Augmented Reality-Based CAD (AR-CAD) and a Traditional CAD tool
Muhammad Talha, Abdullah Mohiuddin, Sehrish Javed, Ahmed Jawad Qureshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12146

Lowering Barriers to CAD Adoption: A Comparative Study of Augmented Reality-Based CAD (AR-CAD) and a Traditional CAD tool
The paper presents a comparative user study between an Augmented Reality-based Computer-Aided Design (AR-CAD) system and a traditional computer-based CAD modeling software, SolidWorks. Twenty participants of varying skill levels performed 3D modeling tasks using both systems. The results showed that while the average task completion time is comparable for both groups, novice designers had a higher completion rate in AR-CAD than in the traditional CAD interface, and experienced designers had a s…

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

China halts high-precision machine tool exports to Russia as trade ties cool: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/china-halts-highprecision-machine-tool.html

Looking for a phantomjs alternative, ran a search and ended up on a page with a seemingly good comparison of possibilities, until you realize the page is on zenrows.com domain. I don't think I'll take YOUR word for your product. Not sure what snakeoil they might be selling but feels overtly self-aggrandizing at least

New Tool Reads DNA and RNA in a Single Cell, Unlocking Secrets of Disease
https://scitechdaily.com/new-tool-reads-dna-and-rna-in-a-single-cell-unlocking-secrets-of-disease/

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/16/google-deepm…

'systemd-analyze' is a useful if random tool that's part of systemd; it's actually got a whole bunch of different useful bits thrown in. The 'blame' , 'plot' and 'critical-chain' subcommands let you debug start up time. 'calendar' and 'timestamp' let you test if your format for a time/date is OK to use in a systemd file; 'verify' lets you check your systemd unit file for errors. There's loads more random bits.

Audio-Maestro: Enhancing Large Audio-Language Models with Tool-Augmented Reasoning
Kuan-Yi Lee, Tsung-En Lin, Hung-Yi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11454 https://

Audio-Maestro: Enhancing Large Audio-Language Models with Tool-Augmented Reasoning
Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown strong capabilities in audio understanding. However, most systems rely solely on end-to-end reasoning, limiting interpretability and accuracy for tasks that require structured knowledge or specialized signal analysis. In this work, we present Audio-Maestro -- a tool-augmented audio reasoning framework that enables audio-language models to autonomously call external tools and integrate their timestamped outputs into the reasoning p…

#TIL about this awesome interactive tool to explore toponyms in #GreatBritain called Grep Britain. 🇬🇧
https://conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/

Ok this is cool. Don't know if this is a studio/publisher thing or Steam is now enforcing this:
>AI Generated Content Disclosure
> We are utilising ElevenLabs' text-to-speech tool to generate voice-over elements within Metro Rivals. All scripts and content are written by Dovetail Games staff, and the voices you hear in-game, which have used ElevenLabs' software, have been licensed by voice actors.
either way, cool!
@…

lashman (@lashman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Metro Rivals: New York got a store page "Reputation is paramount; strategy is key, and all-out speed can make or break everything. Welcome to Metro Rivals—a genre-defying subway simcade game where you battle Track Titans in solo play or clash with friends in fierce PvP." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3024160 #steam #gaming #videoGames #steamStorePage

New spyware discovered on Belarusian journalist’s phone after interrogation https://therecord.media/spyware-belarus-journalist-rsf

Hey Mastodon, can you please help me out here?
Which is the best *free tool* to organise a community of school parents in Italy?
For now they consider a GoogleDoc for documentation (just 4-5 pages for now) a Facebook page (to organise the discussions in threads). I'd like to propose a free alternative
People involved could be 10-30. There should be some sort of collaborative document management (like a wiki), and ideally a space for discussion (like a forum).
Id…

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@rgegriff/115555220750043172
As someone who hates seeing Acrobat commercials I'm so excited.
But I would use Krita or some other tool before Adobe. In web world figma has full ownership.

If you'd like to search the contents of our magazine from the comfort of your terminal, here's the "s" tool.
https://gitlab.com/akosma/s

Adrian Kosmaczewski / S Search Tool · GitLab
GitLab.com

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Manaal Basha, Aime\^e M. Ribeiro, Jeena Javahar, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Gema Rodr\'iguez-P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11536

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Understanding how developers interact with code generation tools (CGTs) requires detailed, real-time data on programming behavior which is often difficult to collect without disrupting workflow. We present \textit{CodeWatcher}, a lightweight, unobtrusive client-server system designed to capture fine-grained interaction events from within the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. \textit{CodeWatcher} logs semantically meaningful events such as insertions made by CGTs, deletions, copy-paste action…

Incredible that #google makes it impossible to smoothly delete all your photos, either making you scroll select for hours or forcing you to use 3rd party tools like https://github.com/mrishab/google-phot

Nice analysis of the Russian Gerbera drone, used in Poland by Russia.
#osint #drones

OSMP: Gerbera series
A tool for researchers, journalists and practitioners trying to learn more about munitions and their use and impact in conflicts.

Tool-Augmented Policy Optimization: Synergizing Reasoning and Adaptive Tool Use with Reinforcement Learning
Wenxun Wu, Yuanyang Li, Guhan Chen, Linyue Wang, Hongyang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07038

Tool-Augmented Policy Optimization: Synergizing Reasoning and Adaptive Tool Use with Reinforcement Learning
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have popularized test-time scaling, where models generate additional reasoning tokens before producing final answers. These approaches have demonstrated significant performance improvements on benchmarks involving mathematical reasoning. However, language models relying solely on direct inference still struggle with tasks demanding up-to-date knowledge or computational tools such as calculators and code interpreters for complex arithmetic operatio…

Anonymisierung von Urteilen:
Neues KI-Tool Jano für die hessische Justiz #teamresopal
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/reg

KI in der Justiz: Projekt Jano beginnt in Hessen
In Hessen wird erstmals ein KI-Tool eingesetzt, mit dem Gerichtsentscheidungen anonymisiert werden können. Was früher mehrere Stunden gedauert hat, soll damit in Sekunden erledigt sein.

Adaptive Tool Generation with Models as Tools and Reinforcement Learning
Chenpeng Wang, Xiaojie Cheng, Chunye Wang, Linfeng Yang, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06825 http…

Adaptive Tool Generation with Models as Tools and Reinforcement Learning
Tool-augmented language models have demonstrated strong capabilities, but their reliance on live API access creates scalability and reliability challenges during training and deployment. We propose MTR, a simulation-first training framework for tool-augmented reasoning. Instead of relying on live APIs, MTR learns from complete ReAct traces with schema-validated, simulated observations. Our approach operates through a multi-agent architecture where a ToolMaker generates task-specific, OpenAI-com…

Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/800868/anthro…

Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its Claude AI chatbot called Skills, which should make AI agents more useful.

I'm surprised that many people just seem to realize that the golden cage by #Apple is actually a golden cage! 🤷
What have you thought when you decided for that (overpriced) #lockin situation?
Of course, an #iOS

Neu im DNBLab: Tool zur SRU-Schnittstellenabfrage
#DNBlab

Automated #galaxy sizes in Euclid images using the Segment Anything Model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03642 -> A New AI Tool to Map the Outskirts of Galaxies

SoilGen: A Comprehensive Tool for Generating Synthetic Soil Profiles for Geotechnical and Seismic Analysis
Mersad Fathizadeh, Hosna Kianfar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12429 http…

❗ Weitere Informationen – nicht nur zum Thema Diebstahl, sondern auch zu einer Vielzahl anderer Risiken – findet ihr im SiLK-Tool: https://www.silk-tool.de/de. Hier gibt es einführende Informationen, Fragebögen und eine Wissensdatenbank, die gemeinsam das Bewusstsein für Fragen des Schutzes und der Erha…

LibraryLens: An Interactive Tool for Exploring and Arranging Digital Bookshelves
Trevor DePodesta, Johanna Beyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09502 https://a…

LibraryLens: An Interactive Tool for Exploring and Arranging Digital Bookshelves
Existing digital book management platforms often fail to capture the rich spatial and visual cues inherent to physical bookshelves, hindering users' ability to fully engage with their collections. We present LibraryLens, a novel visualization tool that addresses these shortcomings by enabling users to create, explore, and interact with immersive, two-dimensional representations of their personal libraries. The tool also caters to the growing trend of social sharing within online book communitie…

The Associated Press launches AP Verify, an AI-powered tool, including chatbot and geolocation, to help journalists authenticate text, photos, and videos (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/wires_and_agencies/ap-verify-dash…

AP launches verification dashboard for publishers to meet 'demand for authenticity'
Associated Press has rolled out a new verification system for newsbrands to ensure content is authentic before publishing.

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

Die Geo-Net Umweltconsulting GmbH bietet mit ihrer neuen WebGIS-Anwendung eine Analyse des Einflusses vom #Klimawandel auf den #Ertrag von #Windparks.
Basierend auf

Prognose für Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den Ertrag von Windparks
Ein neues Tool kann qualitativ berechnen, welchen Einfluss der Klimawandel auf den Ertrag von Windparks hat.

Tesla: Neue Dashcam-Funktion zeigt detaillierte Telemetriedaten im Video
Mit dem „2025 Holiday Update“ erhalten Tesla-Fahrer Zugriff auf Telemetriedaten ihrer Dashcam-Videos – ein Open-Source-Tool macht sie sichtbar.

‘We’ll Need To See a Warrant’: The Group Teaching Businesses a Vital Tool To Fight ICE Raids | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-10/well-need-see-warrant-group-teaching-businesses-vital-tool-fight-ice-raids

Logitech discloses data breach after Clop claims https://therecord.media/logitech-discloses-data-breach-clop

PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen, Xingwang Lin, Lutao Jiang, Xu Zheng, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Litao Guo, Yinchuan Li, Ying-Cong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09507

PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
The ability to use, understand, and create tools is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling sophisticated interaction with the physical world. For any general-purpose intelligent agent to achieve true versatility, it must also master these fundamental skills. While modern Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) leverage their extensive common knowledge for high-level planning in embodied AI and in downstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, the extent of their true understanding of phys…

»Zukunftssicher verschlüsseln: Post Quantum Cryptography«
Das ist ein Thema mit dem ich mir beschäftige. Nicht mathematisch aber bin am Tool zu erstellen, das uns heute so wie zukünftig im Web sicher(er) macht.
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bWdLVEHYM

Multi-Agent Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization
Zhanfeng Mo, Xingxuan Li, Yuntao Chen, Lidong Bing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04678 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Multi-Agent Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on multi-turn tool-integrated planning for knowledge-intensive and complex reasoning tasks. Existing implementations typically rely on a single agent, but they suffer from limited context length and noisy tool responses. A natural solution is to adopt a multi-agent framework with planner- and worker-agents to manage context. However, no existing methods support effective reinforcement learning post-training of tool-integrated multi-agent frameworks…

PyMigTool: a tool for end-to-end Python library migration
Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, May Mahmoud, Sarah Nadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08810 https://

PyMigTool: a tool for end-to-end Python library migration
Library migration is the process of replacing a library with a similar one in a software project. Manual library migration is time consuming and error prone, as it requires developers to understand the Application Programming Interfaces (API) of both libraries, map equivalent APIs, and perform the necessary code transformations. Due to the difficulty of the library migration process, most of the existing automated techniques and tooling stop at the API mapping stage or support a limited set of …

O-Forge: An LLM Computer Algebra Framework for Asymptotic Analysis
Ayush Khaitan, Vijay Ganesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

O-Forge: An LLM + Computer Algebra Framework for Asymptotic Analysis
Large language models have recently demonstrated advanced capabilities in solving IMO and Putnam problems; yet their role in research mathematics has remained fairly limited. The key difficulty is verification: suggested proofs may look plausible, but cannot be trusted without rigorous checking. We present a framework, called LLM+CAS, and an associated tool, O-Forge, that couples frontier LLMs with a computer algebra systems (CAS) in an In-Context Symbolic Feedback loop to produce proofs that a…

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

Is that an open source alternative to Framer/WebFlow? #Frappe #webdevelopment

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country https://www.404media.co/this-app-lets-ice-track-vehicles-and-owners-across-the-country/

La Suite Docs 3.10.0: Kollaborations-Tool erhält ODT-Export
Das Open-Source-Tool La Suite Docs unterstützt nun ODT-Export und verbessert Mobile-UX sowie Barrierefreiheit deutlich.
https://www.

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
Donghan Hu, Rameen Mahmood, Annabelle David, Danny Yuxing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09763

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
AI-driven applications have become woven into students' academic and creative workflows, influencing how they learn, write, and produce ideas. Gaining a nuanced understanding of these usage patterns is essential, yet conventional survey and interview methods remain limited by recall bias, self-presentation effects, and the underreporting of habitual behaviors. While ethnographic methods offer richer contextual insights, they often face challenges of scale and reproducibility. To bridge this gap…

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

A UK PR agency is offering a £250/month AI tool called Olivia Brown, which creates press releases and expert quotes, and "relentlessly" emails journalists (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/automated-pr-tool…

Automated PR tool is bombarding UK media with AI-generated content
Olivia Brown' reads websites, writes press releases then 'relentlessly' sends emails.

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/goog

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

Google's New AI Health Tool: Opt in or Risk Losing Benefits - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-health-tool-opt-in-risk-losing-benefits-2025-10

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use
Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05592

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use
Outcome-driven reinforcement learning has advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but prevailing tool-augmented approaches train a single, monolithic policy that interleaves thoughts and tool calls under full context; this scales poorly with long horizons and diverse tools and generalizes weakly to new scenarios. Agentic systems offer a promising alternative by decomposing work across specialized modules, yet most remain training-free or rely on offline training decoupled from the l…

MATRIX: Multimodal Agent Tuning for Robust Tool-Use Reasoning
Tajamul Ashraf, Umair Nawaz, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Rao Anwer, Philip Torr, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08567

MATRIX: Multimodal Agent Tuning for Robust Tool-Use Reasoning
Vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as controllers with access to external tools for complex reasoning and decision-making, yet their effectiveness remains limited by the scarcity of high-quality multimodal trajectories and the cost of manual annotation. We address this challenge with a vision-centric agent tuning framework that automatically synthesizes multimodal trajectories, generates step-wise preference pairs, and trains a VLM controller for robust tool-use reasoning. …

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-deploying-a-powerful-surveillance-tool-at-college-football-games/

Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum
Ein Tool namens Bounce zieht bald Accounts von Bluesky zu Mastodon und in die Gegenrichtung um. Derweil soll Mastodon hauseigene Starter Packs bekommen.

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busi…

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

Tool verrät, welche KI-Skills im Arbeitsmarkt wirklich gefragt sind
Welche KI-Kompetenzen sind wirklich relevant? Ein neues Tool analysiert Stellenangebote und zeigt, wo Unternehmen aktuell Bedarf haben.

IAB announces a tool that lets device manufacturers confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices; Google, Apple, and Amazon have signed on (Anthony Vargas/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/tv/ctv-manufacturers-have-a-new-t…

CTV Manufacturers Have A New Tool For Catching Spoofed Devices
The Open Measurement SDK now provides a scaled way for original device manufacturers to confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices.

Foveated Rendering: Gratis-Tool bringt Eye-Tracking-Feature auf PC-VR-Headsets
Ein Gratis-Tool aktiviert Foveated Rendering auf zahlreichen PC-VR-Headsets und spart dadurch Rechenleistung bei aufwendigen VR-Spielen.
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Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

Stanford-Tool kann politische Feindseligkeit auf X verringern
Polarisierende Beiträge im X-Feed beeinflussen die Einstellung gegenüber politisch Andersdenkenden. Kleine Änderungen im Feed wirken sich schnell positiv aus.

Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for safety testing, and says it observed multiple cases of models attempting to blow the whistle (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/petri-open-source-auditing

Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research
A new automated auditing tool for AI safety research

TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic in Advanced Talks to Buy Developer Tool Startup in First Acquisition
Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be ...

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/the-startup-behind-open-source-t…

The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel | TechCrunch
Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project by the same name, has raised an €18 million Series A led by Accel.

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant
Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that will transform the tool into an AI companion that draws from your conversations, workspace, and files to provide customized assistance.

Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300 employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/cursor-ai-startup-funding-round-valuati…

AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation
Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code.